some kind of buffet

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

buffetlibre.net are doing another massive 'rewind' collection for free. the basic principle is quite good electro(ish) acts and djs have a crack at doing a load of covers of old(ish) songs and it's reasonably listenable for the most part. the last one was pretty good, even if the frankmusik cover of 'every breath you take' was quite mesmerisingly bad as 'good artists covering not-totally-rubbish songs' go.

anyway, i thought you lot might be interested seeing as it's free and everything. from listening to it thus far i can say the au revoir simone cover of 'here is the news' is pretty good and there's a far-from-unpleasant remix of 'let me be your fantasy.'

you can download it all on their site, here: http://www.buffetlibredjs.net/ (scroll down for the .zip)

edit: the freezepop cover of 'only you' by the flying pickets (listed as yazoo for no doubt complex reasons) is pretty much awesome.

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

as bless ;) the flying pickets version was a cover of the yazoo original innit...

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

i did actually nearly edit the post to ask about this about 30 seconds ago when i realised there are two versions on the buffet libre thing and both determined it's yazoo... *facepalm*

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

My friends @ Project Moonbase (http://projectmoonbase.blogspot.com/2009/01/playlist-11-january-2009.html) have been caning this on thier show, I believe. I also put the Au Revoir Simone track on my last mix CD - and wrote a few words about it on my LJ (most recent post): great stuff.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

lesson learnt by me here: pay more attention to mixtapes.

i was surprised how many really good acts they'd managed to get in this time. not that of the 90 tracks there isn't quite a bit of dross but there's a lot of really good stuff, too.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Yeah I've only gone four or five songs in but at least two I'd be keen to hear again - not the Au Revoir Simone though! Thanks for alerting us to this!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

*Two* Phil Collins covers? And "Dancing in the dark" twice? No accounting for taste I suppose.

Wonder what the Rick Astley cover sounds like? Am downloading the zip at the mo.